America, as they say, is a melting pot. And nowhere is that more evident than in the kitchens of immigrants who have come to the United States and brought with them ancestral dishes to add to our national palate. But for families affected by the Trump administration’s travel ban, cooking traditional recipes—especially…

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump’s travel ban against residents of six predominantly Muslim countries can be fully implemented while legal challenges to the controversial policy move forward.

For families with roots in countries singled out by President Trump’s travel ban, this holiday season is a particularly complicated time to explore what being American truly means. In the third video of our “Banned Recipes” series, a Libyan American shows us how to make her family’s favorite couscous dish.

For families with roots in countries singled out by President Trump’s travel ban, this holiday season is a particularly complicated time to explore what being American truly means. In the second video of our “Banned Recipes” series, a Yemeni American opens up her kitchen to show us how to make Saltah, a dish designed…

Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday. But for families with roots in countries singled out by President Trump’s travel ban, this Thanksgiving is a particularly complicated time to explore what being American truly means. In this first video of our “Banned Recipes” series, a Syrian American family opens…

On Tuesday night, the Supreme Court dismissed one of the two cases it was scheduled to hear challenging President Trump’s now-expired travel ban. A third iteration of Trump’s travel ban will go into effect on Oct. 18, despite already pending legal challenges.

The Trump Administration plans to restrict the number of refugees admitted into the U.S. next year to 45,000 people— a historically low cap that no other president before Trump has ever set. In a State Department report delivered to congress on Wednesday, the White House also requested more stringent screening for…

On Sunday evening, President Donald Trump signed the latest version of his odious travel ban. And judging by some eye-opening reporting and some of Trump’s own comments, it’s clear that the new version of the ban has been put together with the classic Trump blend of sinister arbitrariness.

President Trump signed yet another version of his travel ban on Sunday evening after his plans to do so were reported by The New York Times last week. In addition to barring travel from Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Iran, and Libya, countries that the first iteration of Trump’s heavily revised ban already listed, the new…

The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration’s request to ban most refugees from entering the U.S. under its travel ban on Tuesday. Last week, an appeals court ruled that refugees with sponsorship from resettlement groups were exempt from President Trump’s travel ban.

An appeals court in Seattle, WA, has upheld a lower court’s ruling that the Trump administration’s definition of close familial relationship as it pertained to the travel ban was too narrow. A federal judge in Hawaii previously rejected the White House’s attempt to bar grandparents and cousins from entering the U.S.…

President Trump’s attempt to prevent people from six majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. has incurred yet another legal loss. The government has settled a class action lawsuit filed by plaintiffs who were denied entry at airports across the country, despite possessing valid visas, when Trump’s ban was…

Donald Trump’s ongoing effort to enact his administration’s legally dubious travel ban has been done largely in the name of preventing terrorism and protecting American families. But one lesser-known effect of the ban has been to prevent those families from forming in the first place—by blocking orphaned refugees from…

Following a district judge’s ruling that grandparents (and other close family members) with relatives who are U.S. citizens were exempt from President Trump’s travel ban, the State Department has officially reissued its guidelines to reflect the ruling.

On Thursday, a federal judge in Hawaii ruled that the White House’s list of relationships exempted from the administration’s Muslim travel ban must be expanded beyond immediate family to include grandparents/children, cousins, in-laws, aunts/uncles and nieces/nephews of those people already in the United States.